Prosperity is just around the corner. I’ve worked all night on the .ini file and gone into the first orb, which will probably actually end up somewhere around Class III Level 3, if I’ve calculated the Classes correctly, and I think I have.
You start at Class Zero, just below the Beginner, which will be Class I, Level I, meaning the first level of Class One. Classes will typically have seven levels of Achievement within them.
Classes begin at Easy, Level 1, 2 and 3, then get progressively harder, with higher and higher demands upon the Runner (that’s YOU). You’ll be asked to perform tasks, figure out puzzles and dispel evil visions and apparitions which, although they can’t harm you, can send you back to “start”, which can be very annoying. It’s just like the Real Thing, because it IS the Real Thing!
I’ll explain a little. Back in 1965, I was at my Aunt Nettie’s Botanica and she happened to be mixing up a batch of “Black Cat” oil…but the ingredients were obviously wrong. She placidly placed the label “Black Cat” printed in black on sticky gold label stock, on the bottles into which she’d distributed the result.
“That’s not Black Cat Oil”, I commented.
“It is now,” she smiled. I realized she was right. The Name of the Thing is The Thing Itself. That which is like a thing is the thing and controls the thing. Heck, even in sci-fi and fantasy, even in good old Harold Potter, we learn the First Law of Magic, ie; to wit:
Law of Similarity — The more precisely and accurately a thing resembles another thing in shape, size, weight, coloration, form and function, the more powerful the Coupling Factor between them, creating the SAAAD Effect, Spooky Action At A Distance, long known to science, proposed by Einstein and now thoroughly accepted almost everywhere (there are a few 20th century hold-outs in the academic system unwilling to alter their original thesis project papers even just a smidge).
In 1947, my mother bought a Picasso at an auction. I had warned her about this cheapo auction house, but she went ahead anyway and bought it. Experts visiting her home told her that it was probably okay, but couldn’t be completely authenticated. She went to her old friend Picasso at his ceramic studio in Spain (she was a very famous ceramics and glaze expert who worked at the Museum of Modern Art during that time period).
“Well?” She demanded of her friend, Pablo.
“Well what?”
“Is this a Picasso or isn’t it???” She thrust it toward him. At this time, a small oil of his wasn’t worth more than a few thousand U.S. dollars, so it was more a matter of honor than value to her.
“Do the experts accept it?” Picasso smiled up at her. He was painting an owl pot at the time.
“Yes. I think so. The people at the auction house said it was authentic.”
“Well, then…it is a Picasso!!!” He laughed triumphantly. She never did find out whether he’d actually painted it or not, and it was sold in 1956 when we lived in Westwood Village, L.A. next to Peter Lawford’s mother, but that’s another story.
Now we get to Year 1967. My friend Mac asked me for a bottle of 3-Kings Oil, which I hadn’t made up for quite some time. I was out of it, but offered to make some for him.
“You got the ingredients handy?” I told him, no, I didn’t, but I could make substitutes. I mixed up the oil with different fragrances, but it came out more or less the same as it would have if I’d had the “right” ingredients.
“Label it,” he prompted. Of course, I was about to. I used a special pen on the sticky gold label, writing carefully “3 Kings Oil” — not “3 Kings” or “Three Kings”, but “3 Kings Oil”, just the way it should be written. The Name of The Thing is The Thing Itself. The more precise the Name, the tighter the Bond, the Coupling Factor, the Linkage.
Okay, so how does that work in magic? Easiest and most common experience in the Western World is that of the Holy Sacrament. Originally matzoh, unleavened bread, the Christian wafer is now as thin, cheap and bland as possible, to minimize cost. It tastes like nothing, therefore offending presumably no one.
The wafer gets magically transformed into the Body of Christ. The wine is transformed into the Blood of Christ. The congregation is invited to partake of this Sacramental Feast, in more or less the same way as described in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.
MAGIC ABOUNDS, and don’t you forget it. It’s everywhere, in every culture. Each culture, as you’d expect from a primitive species like humans of Planet Earth, insists that its own brand of ritual magic is “religious” and all other brands are “magic”, “witchcraft” or “sorcery”, and by the way, witches don’t practice anything like voodoo, not typically; it’s about Lunar Pathways to Higher Consciousness. All higher teachings get add-ons for the profane, it’s the way things are here.
If you want to get a full rundown on the exact magical principles behind this action — meaning using the Magical Tool that I call PROSPERITY — tune in to my LIVE webcast this morning at 6:30 am. If you need the password, call Yanesh for it NOW. If you aren’t One Of Us yet and want to attend, email me and I’ll do what I can to get you in.